Don’t water your lawn too much. A sprinkler at the end of a hose needs your personal attention. Buy timer attachments or set a kitchen timer to ring in 15 or 20 minutes to remind you to move the sprinkler.

Adjust lawn watering to the weather. After a heavy rain, skip your regular watering day until the grass needs it again. Teach your family members how to turn off an automatic sprinkler system in case a storm comes up during the sprinkling cycle.

When you walk on your lawn, do you leave footprints behind? That’s a sign the grass needs water. It’s too dry to spring back when you walk on it. Another sign is grass that turns a dull gray-green color.

Take shorter showers and turn the faucet off when brushing your teeth.